Joseph Hansen (writer): Difference between revisions

Although he published almost forty books in a wide variety of genres, Hansen is best remembered for his ground breaking series of crime novels starring his most iconic creation, Dave Brandstetter, an openly [[homosexual]] private eye who still embodied the tough, no-nonsense personality of the classic [[hardboiled]] protagonist. His first adventure, ''Fadeout'', was published in 1970, and over the next twenty-one years twelveeleven more entries in the series were written: ''Death Claims'' (1973), ''Troublemaker'' (1975), ''The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of'' (1978), ''Skinflick'' (1979), ''Gravedigger'' (1982), ''Nightwork'' (1984), ''The Little Dog Laughed'' (1986), ''Early Graves'' (1987), ''Obedience'' (1988), ''The Boyt Who Was Buried This Morning'' (1990), and ''A Country of Old Men'' (1991).